Anne Moir > Quotes

“High levels of female hormone seem to enhance coordination skills in women. From early on, girls are superior in tasks requiring rapid, skillful, fine movements as well as, of course, in everything requiring verbal fluency and articulation. However, girls with the highest oestrogen levels seem to be at an intellectual disadvantage, while boyish girls do particularly well in the field of spatial skills - the traditional area of male advantage. There is growing support for the belief that girls with male character traits such as aggression, independence, self-confidence and assertion tend to achieve higher academic success than the norm for their sex. Teenage girls whose mothers took male hormones during pregnancy have higher overall IQs, and are more likely to pass university extramce examsinations. They also seem to be disproportionately interested, for their sex, in science subjects.”
― Anne Moir, Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women

“School-age boys had begun to define their life aims in terms of the occupations, and the prestige of the occupations, that lay ahead. They were asking, 'What is my work to be?' while the girls were wondering, 'Who will my husband be?”
― Anne Moir, Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women

“High levels of female hormone seem to enhance coordination skills in women. From early on, girls are superior in tasks requiring rapid, skillful, fine movements as well as, of course, in everything requiring verbal fluency and articulation.”
― Anne Moir, Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women

“The attractiveness of a man usually depends predominantly upon his skills and prowess rather than upon his physical appearance.”
― Anne Moir, Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women

“When men try to be romantic they do it less by words than through things. Not for nothing are chocolates and jewelry described as 'tokens' of affection. Not for nothing does he 'say it with flowers'- he cannot say it with words. The male language of love is doing.”
― Anne Moir, Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women

“More desirable women have more bargaining power on the mating market, and they can elevate their standards. They want higher levels of resourves, education, and intelligence; higher social status; good parenting skills; and raft of other traits. American man with resources are more likely to marry physically attractive women. Most men can obtain a much more desirable mate if they are willing to commit to a long-term relationship because women typically desire lasting commitment, and highly desirable women are in the best position to get what they want.”
― Anne Moir, Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women

“Research into human beings show that girls with the highest oestrogen levels seem to be at an intellectual disadvantage, while boyish girls do particularly well in the field of spatial skills - the traditional area of male advantage. There is growing support for the belief that girls with male character traits such as aggression, independence, self-confidence and assertion tend to achieve higher academic success than the norm for their sex. Teenage girls whose mothers rooo male hormones during pregnancy have higher overall IQs, and are more likely to pass university extramce examsinations. They also seem to be disproportionately interested, for their sex, in science subjects.”
― Anne Moir, Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women

“The pursuit of power is overwhelmingly and universally a male trait. To rise in the hierarchy, men are much more prepare than women to make sacrifices of their own time, pleasure, relocations health, safety, or emotions.”
― Anne Moir

“Boys, overwhelmingly, go into jobs with a mechanical or theoretical bias, girls into jobs which, for the most part, involve some form of human interaction, like catering, social, or secretarial work, or teaching.”
― Anne Moir, Brain Sex: The Real Difference Between Men and Women